Eric Ripert
Eric Ripert
Eric Ripertis a French chef, author and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and noted for his work with seafood...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth2 March 1965
CountryFrance
beings eat fruits gift human life meat nature problem sacred therefore
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
perceive
I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.
image precision vivid
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
pinpoint time
When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.
dream reading importance
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
dream book library
When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.
spiritual believe emotional
Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all.
restaurants menus
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
passion paris dining
When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.
sides my-family farmers
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
retirement kids responsibility
When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
chef
You don't become a chef to become famous.
way helping rich
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
buddhist collecting should
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.